Lynn Green

General Secretary

The General Secretary serves our Union by offering spiritual leadership within the context of the Word and prayer.

The General Secretary is the leader of our Union, both internally in supporting, guiding and encouraging our Associations, Colleges and Churches in mission, and also externally in representing the Union in the UK and abroad, in both Christian and secular settings. Read more...

Dave Gregory

President

The President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain is elected annually and takes office in May.

The President’s main role is as a communicator / facilitator of our Union’s vision and mission. The President travels around our Union, engaging with local churches, regional Associations and Colleges. Read more...

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What is Christianity?

Our Union of over 2000 churches is supported by staff in thirteen regional associations and three specialist teams based in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Our six Baptist Colleges prepare men and women for ministry and offer ongoing development and training.

Home Mission Grants are given to support a variety of ministries in and through Baptist churches and chaplains across the country. It also enables all our churches and ministers to be supported and helped through the work of the Regional Associations and the specialist teams in Didcot.

Other areas of work

Safeguarding for the protection of adults and children from harm, abuse or neglect. Every church should adopt safeguarding policy statements for children, young people, and adults at risk. We help churches maintain safe environments for all, with processes to follow should something go wrong, and support for everyone involved.

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Our Resources Library has a wealth of guideline leaflets and information to help you and your church on a range of topics. You can also find a range of booklets, cards and our Baptists Together magazine available to buy from the Online Shop.

Resourcing

From the very beginning when God recognised that it wasn’t good for any of us to be alone – family has featured and humans have connected with God both 1:1 and as family. It seems in our current 21st century context that the Spirit is drawing our attention again to the value and sacredness of family life (all shapes of family including single person families, with or without children families, any stage of life families) - and in particular to the benefits and life (and growth) that come from being part of an multi-generational family.

Family is spelled b-e-l-o-n-g-i-n-g. To flourish as a human being or to put it biblically, to live life in all its fullness, we need family. It’s where we begin learning what being and keeping safe is all about. It’s where we begin to understand the importance of boundaries and how to make our own and understand others’. It’s where we discern our calling, our significant place in the world and how we can contribute. Our “lived with” family is vital in this but so is our church family.

Within this perhaps the invitation comes again to value all the generations but to do so whilst keeping a strong focus on children and young people? After all, Jesus seemed to give us special responsibilities towards them! How can we nurture faith in children and young people, so that they have space to explore, experience and experiment in their lives with God? How might we adults be changed as we let them loose!?

It’s old news that in our context families are often 3 or 4 generations distant from hearing the good news of a Saviour who loves them and is for them. It seems that the Spirit may already be at work planting new (messy) congregations, opening up prayer spaces in schools and forming schools pastors’ teams, drawing us into mentoring young people especially with the decimation of local youth services. Is this the refreshing and reviving that we have been praying for?!